The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn’t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there’s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students’ minds.
Teller, of the entertainment duo Penn & Teller, explains how magic and discomfort made his teaching come alive.
Source: Education Is Performance Art
